Chidi Opara, a 35-year-old bus conductor, who allegedly defiled a five-year-old has been remanded at Kirikiri Prisons by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Magistrate Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi who refused to take the plea of the accused, said he should be behind bars pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP.
Opara, who resides at Iyana- Iba, Lagos, is being charged for defilement.
ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, the Police prosecutor told the court that the accused committed the offence on June 10 at Iba area of Lagos.
He said that the accused unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the minor.
“The accused visited the brother of the girl in his absence. He called the girl into her brother’s room, removed her pant and had sexual intercourse with her,” Ayorinde said.
He said that the mother of the girl noticed the way her daughter was walking and she questioned her.
“When the girl entered her mother’s room, she discovered that her daughter was not walking properly and also noticed blood and sperm gushing out of her private parts.
“The girl told her mother what the accused did to her, her mother raised alarm, on hearing the voice of the girl’s mother, the accused ran out of the room.”
The prosecutor said, “The mother ran after him shouting, people on the street gave the accused a hot chase and he was apprehended and handed over to the police”
The offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
The section prescribes life imprisonment for defilement.
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